LEOPARD ROOFING CO. v. ASPHALT ROOFING INDUSTRY BUREAU

No. 4012.

190 F.Supp. 726 (1960)

LEOPARD ROOFING COMPANY, Inc. v. ASPHALT ROOFING INDUSTRY BUREAU et al.

United States District Court E. D. Tennessee, N. D.

October 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ambrose, Wilson & Saulpaw, Knoxville, Tenn., C. Arthur Sullivan, Earl Keyes, Jackson, Miss., Arthur John Keefe, Peyton Ford, Ford, Larson, Greene & Horan, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Arthur Medow, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Homan & Arthington, Chicago, Ill., Robert S. Young, Jr., Baker, Young, Young & Baker, Knoxville, Tenn., R. R. Kramer, Franklin J. McVeigh, Kramer, Dye, McNabb & Greenwood, Green, Webb & McCampbell, Knoxville, Tenn., Arthur L. Fisk, Jr., Asst. Gen. Atty., Johns-Manville Corp., New York City, Murray S. Monroe, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio, Malcolm I. Ruddock, Bradley M. Walls, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Victor Futter, Asst. Director Legal Dept., Barrett Div. Allied Chemical Corp., New York City, William J. Speers, Jr., Warner, Stackpole, Stetson & Bradlee, Boston, Mass., Porter R. Chandler, Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, New York City, J. H. Doughty, Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Arthur Byrne, Poore, Cox, Baker & McAuley, Knoxville, Tenn., Cyrus Austin, Joseph W. Burns, Austin, Burns, Appell & Smith, New York City, John B. Robinson, Jr., Dallstream, Schiff, Hardin, Waite & Dorschel, Chicago, Ill., John G. Harkins, Jr., Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., Thomas Kiernan, White & Case, New York City, Robert C. Keck, MacLeish, Spray, Price & Underwood, Chicago, Ill., Anderson & Snepp, Knoxville, Tenn., Lederer, Livingston, Kahn & Adsit, Chicago, Ill., O'Neil, Jarvis, Parker & Williamson, Creekmore & Thomson, Key & Lee, Fowler, Rowntree & Fowler, Taylor & Templeton, Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant.


ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

Plaintiff has moved to transfer this case pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 1404 (a).1

This Court, by memorandum filed September 28, 1960, ruled that the suit could have been brought in Mississippi against all of the corporate defendants, as such defendants were transacting business in that State within the meaning of the abovementioned statute.

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